BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [Jan.-March 
QUARANTINE AND OTHER OFFICIAL 
ANNOUNCEMENTS 
ANNOUNCEMENTS RELATING TO JAPANESE BEETLE QUARANTINE 
(NO. 48) 
JAPANESE BEETLE QUARANTINE REGULATIONS REVISED 
[Press notice] 
February 21, 1939. 
A revision of the Japanese beetle quarantine regulations, effective February 
20, was announced by the Secretary of Agriculture today. Nominal exten- 
sions, he stated, are made in the regulated areas in Maryland, New York, 
Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia, together with a more extensive 
increase in the Ohio area. Counties newly added in part or in entirety include 
Jefferson and Livingston Counties, N. Y. ; Harrison, Licking, Richland, Trum- 
bull, and Tuscarawas Counties, Ohio ; Mercer County, Pa. ; and Spotsylvania 
and Westmoreland Counties, Va. Discovery of substantial infestations of the 
Japanese beetle in these sections explains their addition to the regulated area. 
Shippers of produce will also find that the special area from which the move- 
ment of fruits and vegetables by motortruck or refrigerator car is regulated 
is extended to include parts of Berks, Dauphin, Lehigh, and Northampton 
Counties. Pa., and parts of Baltimore and Harford Counties, Md., as well as 
additional area in Dorchester and Caroline Counties, Md. Included among 
those outlying areas to which fruits and vegetables from the main regulated 
area may be moved only when accompanied by certificates, are Hornell, Mount 
Morris, and Watertown, N. Y., the regulated parts of Je*£erson, Livingston, 
and Steuben Counties, N. Y., Newark and Mansfield, Ohio, and other regulated 
parts of Licking and Richland Counties, Ohio. Certificates are not required, 
however, for the movement of such produce from these outlying points in 
New York and Ohio. Fruit shippers have been further relieved by the elimi- 
nation of restrictions on the movement of commercially packed peaches in any 
quantity except by refrigerator car or motortruck from the special area listed 
in regulation 5. Bananas in single bunches packed in . commercial containers 
are also newly exempt from the restrictions. 
Several isolated sections in which Japanese beetles were trapped in the sum- 
mer of 1938 are not included in the regulated areas. Action with respect to 
these infestations has been deferred to give the States concerned an oppor- 
tunity to undertake chemical treatment of the infestations in the spring of 
1939. 
japanese beetle quarantine no. 48 
revision of regulations 
Introductory Note 
Nominal extensions of regulated areas in Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, 
Virginia, and West Virginia, together with a more extensive increase in the 
Ohio regulated area, are made in the following revision of the Japanese beetle 
quarantine regulations. Counties newly added in part or in entirety include 
Jefferson and Livingston Counties, N. Y. ; Harrison, Licking, Richland, Trum- 
bull, and Tuscarawas Counties. Ohio ; Mercer County, Pa. ; and Spotsylvania 
and Westmoreland Counties, Va. Discovery of substantial infestation of the 
Japanese beetle in these sections warranted their addition to the regulated 
area. Enlargements of several partially regulated counties were made in Mary- 
land, New York, Ohio, and West Virginia. 
Counties newly added in part to the special area from which the movement 
of fruits and vegetables by motortruck or refrigerator car is regulated (regu- 
lation 5) include Berks, Dauphin. Lehigh, and Northampton Counties, Pa., and 
Baltimore and Harford Counties, Md. 
Outlying points placed under regulation include Hornell, Mount Morris, and 
Watertown, N. Y., other regulated parts of Jefferson, Livingston, and Steuben 
Counties, N. Y., Newark and Mansfield, Ohio, and the regulated parts of Licking 
